rsync - Feb 2005 - central server

I need to eagerly get this done, and with some help from Danny, I think we are
close but I know 100% the sample below is wrong

Heres what I got so far and need some help what I am doing wrong. 

1. I setup --daemon on the client servers, but I need to know what to put as a
config on each server so that it will backup all the
proper files

2. I did setup the ssh keys and swapped em
3. Bascially I want to run this every night and once the intital is done, it
only update changed files
4. the structure on the local is 

/home/backup/servers/SERVER/directory

So as below, if backup /etc/exim.conf it will be put in

/home/backup/servers/kenai/etc/exim.conf

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

SAMPLE

rsync --rsh="ssh -i /root/.ssh/rsync-key" -avHR --stats --numeric-ids
--delete \
	/etc/exim.conf                                                  \
	/home											\
kenai.thehideout.net::backup /home/backup/servers/kenai/  >>
/var/log/backup.log
echo "Done with Daily Backup"
mail -s Kenai_Backup_Done letsfly@mtaonline.net < /var/log/backup.log    	


Thanks
Gary

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 01:52:26PM -0900, Gary P. wrote:
> 1. I setup --daemon on the client servers, but I need to know what to
> put as a config on each server so that it will backup all the proper
> files
> 2. I did setup the ssh keys and swapped em
You don't usually want to use both ssh and a daemon.  You certainly
don't need to run a daemon process if you're connecting via ssh (which
runs its own daemon process).  If you're happy with the root-level ssh
access you've setup, just reference the files directly without any
daemon stuff (use the single-colon syntax after the hostname).
Something like this:

rsync --rsh="ssh -i /root/.ssh/rsync-key" -avHR --stats --numeric-ids
--delete \
  /etc/exim.conf /home backup:/home/backup/servers/kenai/
>>/var/log/backup.log

I'd have chosen to have the backup server pull data from the client
machines, personally, so that it is the one starting up each host's
backup process.  To reverse the above command, you'd do something like
this:

rsync --rsh="ssh -i /root/.ssh/rsync-key" -avHR --stats --numeric-ids
--delete \
  kenai:"/etc/exim.conf /home" /home/backup/servers/kenai/
>>/var/log/backup.log

(Note the use of double quotes to pass multiple sources names to the
remote host.)

..wayne..